Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Looks like Venezuela can kiss its shot on the UN Security Council goodbye. It also appears that foreign leaders are now doing Americans the service of offering us comic relief. Can't wait for Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert!

Considering that Bush came up woth the Axis of Evil, we should be careful about laughing too much at Hugo Chavez.

6 comments:

I love the detail that, "The U.S. only had a junior note-taker in the room" to listen to the speech. Of course, when Bush is described as the devil, I can hear Cheney laughing manaically in the distance...

Still, it is somewhat of a good sign for the UN that it is being treated as a serious forum--at least worthy as a podium for delivering serious insults!

This could be a very bad thing for us. Chavez is among the dumbist political operators out there. He is so polarizing and either doesn't care or doesn't realize it.

The US reaction has already been to rally around Bush. This at a time when Bush's approval ratings were climbing up out of the basement. Chavez may be the best thing that happened to the Republican party.

If the Republicans win in November because of this, I hope we bomb Venuzuela first. That'll teach 'im.

Chavez is busy supplying cut-rate heating oil to the Northeast, btw. I am more concerned that, as between Bush's and Chavez's speeches, the rest of the world probably agreed far more with Chavez than Bush. Chavez accused Bush of standing before the UN and speaking "as if he owned the world." That resonates. Bush's duplicitous talk about freedom and democracy (apparently inapplicable to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc.) doesn't.

Yes, and I fear that Chavez speaks for much of the 3rd world. It is a sign of how polarizing Bush's policies have been across the globe. People will admire Chavez's daring.

I seriously doubt, RBR, that Chavez's speech will swing an election. However, the House past a bill yesterday requiring photo ID checks at voting polls in 2008. Republicans say that this will prevent non-citizens from voting. I didn't know that we had a rash of non-citizen voting going on. That was aimed at Democrats specifically, and it was not meant to address the real issues behind rigged elections. That would have a more serious affect than Chavez.